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#1 ·
Why is there suddenly such a huge interest in clamping down on fake news?

What really is the make up of fake news and mainstream news?

Is fake news only alt right as it seems to be suggested?

If a site is targeted as fake news is it really all fake?

Many crazy stories like aliens, Bigfoot, ghosts, giants and so on can't be confirmed one way or the other so the site really doesn't have to worry about being debunked. Are these stories put forward to gain views, so viewers will look at the real stories and opinions that the site has to offer?

The mainstream will put some of this stuff out from time to time as well but will leave it to the viewers to decide for themselves as to what they think of it. This also gains viewers for the mainstream sites. These mainstream sites will also promote Hollywood gossip and so on to gain viewers.

Doesn't the mainstream seam to heavily promote certain points like Russia to pump a message whether it is confirmed or not?

Wouldn't you say the rock of both the mainstream and the fake news is the opinions?

Is fake news all fake or is the mainstream media all propaganda or is it really a mix of real news and so called fake news?

Is fake news possibly the wrong term for both the mainstream and the fake news site? It seems since many stories and opinions can't be confirmed that they are what they are until proven otherwise.
 
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#2 ·
At least half the news is fake no matter what the source. Often it is not hard to expose if you look at different sources and get different views. It is best to go to the source and get the absolute facts if possible. If you do this it soon becomes apparent that practically all sources have their bias and what their bias is.

I've read that only 15% of the American public trusts the mainstream media. It surprises me that it is that high since it is so easy to detect the fakery. Many of the stories are so childish and so obviously fake it is surprising anyone takes them seriously. This may be why so many media characters and politicians have such contempt for the public. They know they are bullshitting us and can't believe we are dumb enough to believe their bullshit.
 
#3 · (Edited)
"Doesn't the mainstream seam to heavily promote certain points like Russia to pump a message whether it is confirmed or not?"

Are you referring to the story that Putin swung the election for Trump? If you look into this story you will find out certain things very easily.

1) They are saying Putin influenced the vote by publishing Emails from Hillary's campaign headquarters. In other words it was not Putin or Russia, it was Hillary's crookedness that turned voters against her. Her own emails, and those of her staff, were the proof.

2) Julian Assange of Wikileaks, and several other people who are in a position to know, say there was no hacker and the Russians had nothing to do with it. The emails were leaked by someone in the Clinton camp.

3) They seem to find something sinister in the fact that Putin prefers the candidate who does not want war with Russia.

4) Trump and his cabinet of billionaires and CEOs seem like an unlikely collection of Commies .

Now you have to ask who is spreading this bullshit and why.

And once you know someone is a pathological liar you are a fool if you believe anything they say without proof.
 
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The mainstream media is putting out the Russian story as if it is fact and a done deal. They are pushing so hard that they are even starting to sway some in the electoral college to consider it and change their vote. If Trump tried this the story would be the opposite and they would be framing him as a conspiracy theorist. But still they pump out that there are agencies everywhere that say it is true. Their level of propaganda is truly amazing. However I am not saying it can't come out as true one day but this is at par with Alex Jones or other fake news.

The 15 percent level is bad and yet they do nothing about it. Their ownership having deep pockets must not care and find that their view or message they want pumped out by the media they own is more important. Still the 15 percent seems low considering people on the left seem to have such complete trust in the media no matter what they do.
 
#5 ·
Look at this story now it blames Putin personally.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...personally-involved-u-s-election-hack-n696146

You have to ask yourself why ramp something up so hard without concrete proof unless you are out of time as in Trump will be president very soon.

It reminds me of Assad gassing his own people which is possible but not likely, considering he would gain nothing from it except to raise the opposition against him. If we didn't go to war with Iraq to find out that there were no weapons of mass destruction, then we would still believe that story to this day. We are pressed very hard and very dangerously by the media these days and it is important that people do step back and resist falling into the trap unless all the facts are presented.

On the fake news side it is much harder to gain facts because they don't have the level of recourses that the mainstream media has so they are forced to use theories more often. People who see this need to keep it in mind, so if these theories actually start to play out they won't be so easily swayed, by other sources of propaganda.
 
#6 ·
Do you think the financial news sites online or mainstream could be some of the worst for fake news. Everytime something drops or rises in price they have to give a reason whether it makes sense or not. Or I have heard information is given and reasons set forward to direct investors or clients onto a certain path whether it is the right for them or not. Alt sites promote products or pump it to direct investors.
 
#7 ·
Ex British Ambassador Craig Murray says he is the source of the leak. The Emails were given to him in Washington by a disgruntled Clinton insider who wanted to expose the Clinton campaign's hijacking of the nomination from Bernie Sanders. In other words the emails were leaked not hacked. This shows everyone who says the emails were hacked by Russia is lying or taken in by a liar.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...termediary-disgusted-Democratic-insiders.html
 
#9 ·
The mainstream media has gone from suggesting that Russia hacked the Democrats emails to blatantly claiming that they tried to swing the election. That's fake news.

Of course, the fact that Trump isn't a pushover and the Democrats have done absolutely nothing stop Putin, common sense suggests that Putin would prefer the Democrats remain in power instead of an unknown and likely hard liner like Trump.

Mainstream media = fake news.
 
#8 · (Edited)
It's called "talking their book". It is common for representatives of big banks, hedge funds etc to say they are buying when they are selling, or to push a trade they know is at the end of its rope for their own profit.

Financial sites are the worst, they have to let on they know the cause of every blip in the market. Well no one knows the motivation of the millions of investors who make up the market but they have to look wise and come up with something to justify their jobs.

The only one you can depend on is Dennis Gartman. He is always wrong. Two days ago he went long oil, calling the top perfectly. You would have made some nice profits already if you faded that trade. He does this kind of thing all the time. PS he got stopped out this morning which means oil may be going back up.
 
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i underlined the proof. Everybody knows that a short-term one-time "ambasssador to Uzbekistan" is a honourary reward appointment. The twerp himself is a self-confessed julian assange associate & a Wikileaks practitioner. The Daily Mail is a laughingstock british tabloid that posts nothing but celebrity gossip plus rumours & lies to drive traffic.

(i see nelley has joined the thread) (what the forum needs right now is to pen the small handful of senile alt-right crackbars together here in this one lalaland thread) (it's the only way cmf forum can save itself) (otherwise all the cmf regulars are going to depart in disgust)

(there aren't very many of you kryptos here in cmf) (but since you are all so extremely noisy, you have managed to hijack & poison what was, once upon a time, long ago, a successful working financial forum)

(bass what - if anything - have you got to contribute in finance) (we already know that poor nelley is a financial illiterate)


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#14 ·
I think fake news is a very important topic right now because it is front and centre in all media. This attention could also bring us to censorship and curtailment of free speech. We really need free speech since the mainstream media is doing such a poor job, using their power to push the opinions they want us to see.

Rusty it is funny how their never has been much attention drawn to financial sites, who have been spewing possible fake news for a very long time.

Bass player I am getting concerned about the trouble that could come by this constant heavy barrage of mainstream media news that hasn't been confirmed. It is every bit as dangerous as the concerns about the fake news sites.

Humble I like your venom and push it does add to the conversation because it holds everyones feet to the fire. I disagree that it causes other CMF members to leave, unless the attacks are personal and foul language is used. I like the other opinions they are interesting to read again as long as they stay civil. Look at james and olivaw we disagree a lot but it doesn't change the respect we have for each others opinion.
 
#18 ·
More breaking news:

Donald Trump and his cabinet of billionaire CEOs are secretly Commies working hand in glove with Vladimir Putin

Clint Eastwood is secretly a transvestite midget

Oprah Winfrey is secretly a Grand Kleagal in the Ku Klux Klan

Seriously, if anyone tried to sell the story that Bernie Sanders was a Putin puppet everyone would laugh, and he is an actual Socialist.
 
#19 ·
Fake news certainly crept into our political discussions.

zerohedge, Alex Jones Infowars, RT. There was a time when no CMFer would admit to going anywhere near such trash sites. Now we have posters who read them, believe them and defend them.
 
#25 ·
But what do you do when the crazy uncle is right? What if Trump does win the election even though every mainstream media outlet on the planet gives him no chance? What if the Russians actually did hack Hillary Clinton's emails even though she laughed at the possibility when she was Secretary of State? What if England votes to leave the EU? What if it turns out all those ridiculous peasants have more to say about world events than the experts in their ivory towers? Then what?
 
#27 ·
Did alt-right predict Trump's slim technical victory? I don't think so. They were too busy posting fake news stories about Hillary's health, pedophilia and misuse of foundation funds.

Did Russians hack Hillary. No evidence of it. They hacked DNC and Podesta but not Hillary.

Did Brexit side win the referendum battle. Sure, but the war ain't over yet.
 
#29 ·
Actually ZH and Alex Jones were saying all summer and up to the election the polls were wrong and the mainstream media was feeding everyone fake polls or news through the polls. Their polls were showing them a Trump victory and not the huge lead the mainstream media was showing.

Does that mean I believe everything they say, of course not but I did note this.

I think with all the crap Hillary has done, along with shady donations and so on that they should leave the election results as a Trump win. Yes they should look into hacking and they should change to paper balloting and so on and everyone should stop cheating. Instead it looks like they are still trying to overthrow Trump, instead of getting behind their president and holding his feet to the fire as any opposition would do.
 
#30 · (Edited)
Dilbert author Scott Adams was another who predicted a Trump win and he did so a year before the election. His analysis was spot on every time. He even said the polls understated Trump's support because a lot of people including him were afraid of negative reactions if they spoke their minds in public but would express themselves in the voting booth.

There are no end of stories that come out first in the alternative media and are confirmed later, sometimes much later, in the mainstream media. This is especially true of financial stories.
 
#31 ·
The polls weren't wrong. The polls close to election day were not far off the actual result. Trump outperformed slightly/Hillary underperformed. Trump had several close states break his way and won the electoral college despite Hillary winning the popular vote handily.
 
#38 ·
And here is some info-wars food for thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydjEPGXPN0


newdogcom u know how it is. Folks are never going to look any more at wornout hasbeens zerohedge, info-wars, bill the still, breitbart, RT. Those guys are yesteryear. They all talk the same line anyhow.

what folks want is something fresh, new & outrageous. Please, can you find something FN&O?

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